I am 100% confident that your claim is factually wrong.

I agree with your core point, but no software is intuitive.

b == 7 is a boolean value

Citation needed. I'm pretty sure it's an int.

Do you know the difference between a script and a program?

A script is what you give the actors; a program is what you give the audience.

Yeah, just don't make any mistakes and you'll be fine. Come on guys, how hard can it be?

Incidentally, this is an anti-pattern: http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashPitfalls#cmd1_.26.26_cmd2_.7C.7C_cmd3

@Tangentism @Ephera Did you mean:

echo "${var:-empty}${var:+no it aint}"

?

@affiliate Hey, you didn't even mention that char *args[] actually means char **args in a parameter list.

@stebo02 @Bogus5553 Neither of them require a return value, but void main isn't legal C++.

... Perl, Haskell, Lisp, ...

@masterspace

Not to be rude but not having a linter configured and running is a pretty basic issue.

Yeah, if you're a C programmer in the 1980s, maybe. But it's 2006 now and compilers are able to do basic sanity checks all on their own.

@masterspace "Undeclared variable" is a runtime error.

Perl.